Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
GASTON BACHELARDMan is an imagining being.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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